Jandek - I Knew You Would Leave lyrics

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The rocks crumble

Unto dust they die

Once hard stuff of mountains

Now soft powder among the sand

Who dares crush a rock

Oh rock, no rock

Reduced to the winds

Scatter your parts

You are not one but many

To those shall you succumb

Beast of time, you hurl your heavens sporadic

Falling in the great parade

March unto your death

And into what arms will you go

Surely not your own

Oh God, oh God, be you my hope

And all else ruffles in the winds

Magic carpets fly to your planets

You have no place on earth

Who is it creates sand soliloquy

Is it everyone

Nay, you are a heathen

Erupting words of pretense

Oh Lord let my hand be guided

Sometimes I know it not

As the air, no air is still

And the weary sounds refrain

Now the hyena cackles

His clutch has found my heart bleeding

And now you are gone

Where you hear it all

Wide awake from a long sleep

Myself on my hands

Tomorrow in the gallows

Trees in skies

Empty alliterations replenished

By the hand of one who would fall down

And make a light to shine somewhere

What is this

The cavalcade of misery

What depths

How could we think of distances

Ah, it is the gift of man

To live, the days long

The nights longer

Journey to the stars

They worship the sun

Come down treasures

And I like to see a smile

On your lips as we meet

On a journey to the stars